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Last Thursday, we officially launched jcoco in New York City with the help of chef Amanda Freitag of Chopped and Margaret Purvis CEO of the New York Food Bank. Amanda prepared a 5 star, 5 course meal using ingredients from our jcoco bars including toasted quinoa lamb meatballs, sesame agave yogurt with harissa, and cayenne & Veracruz orange glazed pork belly with wilted kale. Members of the press and friends sampled dishes paired with wines from the Northwest and experienced first-hand, the inspiration behind “couture chocolate”. Jean spoke about the core pillars of the brand:

• Five-star flavors
• Portioned for sharing
• Giving Back to our community

Margaret issued a stirring plea to end hunger where we live and demonstrated her enthusiastic support for jcoco. All in all it was a great success and we look forward to planning our next event (possibly in SF) in the new year. Following the event, a gift to the FBNY of more than 1,000 fresh healthy servings was made a result of a #jcocogives campaign which kicked off the same evening.

Jean and team spent a day at hopelink preparing backpacks for back to school.

Since 1971, Hopelink has served homeless and low-income families, children, seniors and people with disabilities in King County Washington through their integrated array of programs that enable families in crisis to make progress toward and achieve self-sufficiency.

Seattle Chocolates had a blast hosting a field trip for Gilda’s Club Seattle’s Camp Sparkle! Fun included a factory tour, presentation on chocolate, coloring gift boxes, filling truffle bags to take home and (of course) sampling lots of chocolate!